Houston weather: Pleasant weather ahead until the weekend

All right. Welcome back, everyone. Fox 26, your Gulf Coast Weather Authority. Ramesha, we hopefully will see a nice little change in the weather here, huh? I don't think I can deal with another cloudy, gloomy, dreary day. And the good news, Anthony, I don't think we're going to have to. We have a cold front dropping in tonight, and that will bring in a lot of dry air. It's not going to bring any rain, but it's going to help those clouds to melt away. And that will mean plenty of sunshine, I think, for tomorrow. We deserve it after the last couple of days. In fact, check out some of these rain totals, one to two inches of rain common. From Houston to Sugar Land to Pear Land, but southwest of Houston from Rosenberg to around Wharton, two to almost four inches of rain over the last couple of days. Now, some of you were in severe to extreme drought conditions, so the rain was a good thing, but. It's just been very dreary out there and I know if you're anything like me, you're looking forward to some sunshine and we should have plenty of it tomorrow. Right now, we're still kind of cloudy out there. We are at least dry. No wet roads. We're not seeing any lightning in the distance in this shot like we were last night. And overall, it should be a fairly quiet and dry night. We're just waiting for this next front to drop in overnight. That will mean cooler mornings, especially Friday and Saturday morning. Lower humidity as well, and that will mean a lot of dry air for tomorrow, so plenty of sunshine. Enjoy it. Take advantage of it. Get whatever you need to get done outside, out of the way for Thursday and Friday, and maybe the first part of Saturday, because as we go into the second half of the weekend, we are going to have a decent chance for more heavy rain, more thick clouds, more dreary weather, more gloom. So enjoy the sunshine the next couple of days. At least this front is coming through our area dry. It is kicking off some storms. Strong and severe storms in between Nashville and Cincinnati. You can see that big line of storms rolling into the Bowling Green area, Richmond, and just south and east of Cincinnati right now. And that's where we have the threat for severe weather. For tonight, you can see Lexington right there getting in on some of the heavy downpours and we have still had some strong storm alerts, severe thunderstorm warnings along this line. So that's where the instability is. It's not going to reach us. This front comes through dry for the late night hours. It's going to usher in that very low humidity, high pressure setting up to our north for Friday and for tomorrow and that is going to mean a lot of sunshine. Now jumping ahead to the weekend, that's when we could have more problems. with unsettled, wet, stormy weather. Next, cold front will start to take shape back across New Mexico and Colorado, and that's going to slide in over the weekend. And notice by 7, 7:15 p.m. Saturday, rain, all that moisture really starting to increase from Amarillo down to San Antonio and gradually into parts of Houston by Saturday night. Sunday, not looking that great. It looks like it's going to be cloudy, and there will be periods of heavy downpours, and there could be some strong storms as well. And that's going to be a big part of the weekend. That's even gonna lead to a low flood threat. So plan accordingly. If you've gotta get some stuff done outside and you need dry weather this weekend, you may wanna try to get it in on Saturday. As opposed to Sunday, because notice close to 7 p.m. Sunday evening, very heavy rain showing up over not just Houston, but Sugar Land, Katy, up to the Woodlands, and all the way down to Galveston. In fact, the entire area under that low risk for street flooding for Sunday, and that could increase depending on what the models are saying. Make sure you're ready for a soggy second half of the weekend, but look at that, plenty of sunshine for Thursday and Friday, high temperatures in the upper 70s, cooler though for Friday and Saturday morning, 52 to 53 degrees in Houston, and even colder if you're hopping on a plane and going to Cleveland on Sunday to cheer on the Texans. That game should be mainly dry, but temps in the 40s, so a big chill there. A little chill here the next few mornings, but overall it is going to be a nice next couple of days. Sunday, though, that's the day of concern for the heavy rain and flood threat. Keep checking back, and we'll let you know if the trend is for more rain or less rain. But right now, there could be some areas that pick up one to two inches of rain for Sunday.